2021-11-18
- The NetMath program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provides college students and high school students an opportunity to enroll in college level courses to earn credits while learning about various mathematics and statistics topics. From completing calculus requirements, to applied linear algebra, an introduction to probability theory, or statistical analysis, NetMath has over 20...
2021-11-08 - Karle Flanagan, Senior Instructor of Statistics, has recently been named as a CITL Faculty Fellow effective Fall 2021. The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning Faculty Fellowship program seeks unique perspectives and academic interests to assist CITL Staff in identifying faculty needs and reducing barriers to participation in CITL programs, workshops, and events. Supported by the...
2021-10-28 - Lyndsay Shand received her PhD in Statistics from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017 specializing in spatial-temporal analysis and is now a research statistician at Sandia. At Sandia, Lyndsay continues to conduct and lead research centered around space-time statistics with applications to atmospheric science, climate science and disease modeling to name a few. Specific research...
2021-10-05 - Senior Statistics student, Bingyu Zhou, has been selected to display her artwork at the Illini Union Art Gallery through the month of October. Her show, Scratch Paper Paradise, comprises over 200 drawings that she has done which incorporate the reuse of the scratch paper from her problem sets. While Bingyu has taken many art classes and experimented with various styles throughout her life, she...
2021-09-29 - Two students associated with HQAN got the opportunity to do internships in the quantum computing industry this past summer. Scott Turro and Kaiwen (Kevin) Gui both emerged from their experiences with a better understanding of real-world quantum computing, and better prepared for their future careers. Turro is in his senior year at UIUC, majoring in Statistics with minors in Computer Science...
2021-09-15 - Fifth year Statistics Ph.D. student, Joshua Loyal, has been selected by the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) as a recipient of the 2021 Applied Statistics Symposium poster award. Award consideration open for students, postdocs, junior faculty, or junior statisticians with PhD or terminal degree conferred in 2017 or later, who is also the first author of the poster. Loyal was...
2021-09-15 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months). Areas of emphasis include statistical methods for assessing fairness and racial justice, data science, computational statistics, biological and health sciences, statistical machine learning, causal...
2021-08-20 - The Institute of Mathematics (IMS) recently named University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Statistics-PhD alumni, Dr. Judy Huixia Wang, as one of the 2022 IMS Medallion Lectures. The IMS Committee on Special Lectures invites eight individuals to deliver Medallion Lectures annually. Medallion Lectures are distinct from Invited...
2021-08-05 - The Gies College of Business Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research (ORMIR) at the University of Illinois announced that they are awarding Statistics Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Bo Li with a ORMIR faculty scholar appointment effective August 16, 2021. This appointment provides funding for research that will contribute to the understanding of risk management and help address...
2021-08-03 - Hannah Holscher, PhD, RD, is an Associate Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and the Division of Nutritional Sciences. She also has affiliate appointments with the ...
2021-07-23 - The first annual Blackwell Summer Scholars Program finished on July 2, 2021, with the Blackwell Scholars student presentation event. The program witnessed fourteen scholars embark on a six-week-long journey as they worked together on an assortment of projects, culminating with their research presentations at the end of the program. The Blackwell Summer Scholars Program kicked off on May 24, 2021...
2021-07-21 - Department of Statistics PhD student, Joshua Loyal, has been selected for the 2021 International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Best Student/Postdoc Contributed Paper Award, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Loyal’s paper, titled: An Eigenmodel for Dynamic Multilayer Networks was presented at the 2021 ISBA World Meeting held from June 28 through July...
2021-07-19 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has appointed Statistics Professor, Xiaofeng Shao, as the newest Data Science Founder Scholar. The named scholars program aims to recognize outstanding members of the faculty and to provide each with a funding allocation to enhance her or his scholarly activities. Dr. Shao received his PhD in...
2021-06-17 - The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) has selected Yujia Deng - fifth year PhD student - as one of six possible winners of the Student Paper Awards of the ICSA 2021 Applied Statistics Symposium. Deng's paper, titled: Query-augmented Active Metric Learning, will be presented at the ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, which will be held virtually from...
2021-05-26 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Academic Advising Committee (IlliAAC) has named Statistics Undergraduate Advisor, Aaron Smith, as one of the recipients of the 2021 Outstanding New Advising Professionals. Smith was selected for this award for his dedication, care, and commitment to serving the undergraduate student population in the Department of Statistics. Along with the Program...